Community Complication Diagnosis Physicals 
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
No other tasks were associated with lifetime heavy use, recent use, or dependence diagnosis. We need to better understand the guardrails around safe cannabis use and educate the healthcare community and patients. The healthcare community cannot take an “all bad or all good” view of cannabis. It’s more complicated than that.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Objectives Define likelihood ratios and their utility in diagnostic reasoning Identify how likelihood ratios alter the probability of a diagnosis Apply likelihood ratios in clinical reasoning What are likelihood ratios and how do they work? A LR > 1 increases the probability of a specific diagnosis.
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PEMBlog
MARCH 4, 2025
In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Differentiate Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from typical bacterial and viral pneumonia based on history, physical exam findings, and diagnostic testing.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections.
PEMBlog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. He had easy work of breathing, and physical exam was only notable for decreased breath sounds over the left lower lobe. What’s the Diagnosis? This is the second of the four cases. mg/dL, normal <0.1
GeriPal
JULY 19, 2024
I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.
PEMBlog
OCTOBER 2, 2024
I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.
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